Z240: Need Windows 7 activation product key

I am running Linux on a workstation Z240. I want to use the Windows supplied with this workstation license to run Windows 7 on a virtual machine inside my host Linux OS. I have over the content of the original hard drive. Unlike a laptop, it doesn't seem to be a sticker indicating the product key of Windows that I need for activation. I read there may be a digital product key in the BIOS, but I searched the menus without finding.

I wrote what I thought, it was the Windows product key before you erase the hard drive, but it turns out be the ID of the product instead.

Any ideas?

I'll answer my own question. It seems that with Windows 7, it can be done. Even if I take an activated Windows disk image and run it on a virtual machine, Windows 7 recognizes that the hardware has changed and that it is a non-active state.

I also tried to save the key product for the BIOS and restore it on the copy of the VM, but activation does not always work.

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